Loader for bottle-washers



G; J. MEYER.

LOADER FOR BOTTLE WASHERS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE9. 1919.

Patented July 6,, 194119..

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til-EURGE Jl'. MEYER, 01E MILWAUKEE, WISWONSIN, ASSIGNOR T GEO. J. MEYER MAME- ThCTUEING' COMPANY, OF MILWAUKEE, WIErGONSIN, A CORPORATION 015 WIS- LUMBER FUR BUTTLE-WASHERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented duly e, 1929.

an i application, filed November 22, 1915, Serial No. 62,706. Divided and this application filed .lune

. a, rare. serial no. eoaeei.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Gnonan QT. Mnrnn, a

citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Loaders for Bottle-Washers; of

which the bottle conveyer is given continu ous traveling motion, and the washing and brushing mechanism is given a reciprocating travel to cooperate with the bottles successively while the latter are traveling, such type of bottle washer bein% exemplified by Patent No. 1,095,290 to aniel Schmidt, dated May 5, 1914.

Another object of the invention is to provide such a bottle washing machine with an automatic loading chute which will be adapted to receive bottles from a conveyor of a soaker or the like, and will invertthe bottles and insert them in the openings of the bottle carriers of the machine.

- Another object of the invention is to perfect details of construction of such a machine generally. v

- This application is a continuation and division of, that is contains subject matter taken from my co-pending application, Serial No. 62, 706, filed Nov. 22, 1915, patented July 15, 1919, No. 1,310,128 forbottle washin machine.

ith the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the loader for hottle washers as herein claimed and all equivalents.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which-like characters of reference indicate the same parts in diflerent views:

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Figure 1 is a side view of a loader for bottle washers constructed in accordance with thisv invention and showing the loading mechanism in an intermediate position;

llig. 2 is a similar view thereof with the loading mechanism in position to receive bottles from the feeding conveyer.

Tn these drawings indicates a frame of a bottle washing machine or the like, the front or loading end only being shown, in which are suitably journaled sprocket wheels 91 and 22 s pp ting a chain conveyor 20.,

ing tapering openings to receive the necks of the bottles so that the bottles are carried thereby in an inverted position.

At this front end of the machine an automatic loader is provided which is adapted to receive the bottles from a conveyor such as the belt conveyer of a soaker and then invert them and deposit them in the openings of the bottle carriers in the ascending flight of the bottle conveyor from sprocket wheels 22 to sprocket wheels 21. This loading mechanism comprises side frames 88 pivotally mounted concentric with the sprockets 22 of the conveyor, preferably on the same shaft therewith and connected at their rear ends by a counterweight 89. A reversible chute 99 is pivotally mounted at the outer ends of the side frames 88 and is divided by partitions into pockets to receive and hold the bottles from the time they are discharged by the bottle delivery conveyer 91 until they are inverted and deposited in theopenings of the bottle carriers 23. The swinging movement of the loader is provided by an arm 92 on one of the side frames 88 having a connection 93 with the driving mechanism of the soaker or other mechanism of which the conveyer 91 is a part, so that the operation of the loader will be properly timed with relation to the operation of the delivery conveyer 91. The operation of the loader is also in synchronism with the operation of the bottle washing machine, the latter being driven from the soaker-operating mechanism for this purpose. A pinion 94 is provided on one end of the loading chute to engage teeth of a stationary segmental rack 95 for inverting the loading chute at the beginning of its upward movement, and an arc-shaped stationary guide plate 96 has the necks of the bottles bear thereon when the chute is inverted and until it completes its swinging -swinging frame and forming pockets to receive the bottles in the lower position of the swinging frame, means for inverting the chute during the movement of the swinging frame, a guide for preventing the bottles falling out of the inverted chute until in position for delivery to the conveyer, and

means for swinging the frame.

2. In a bottle washing machine having a traveling bottle conveyer, a swinging frame,

a bottle chute pivotally mounted on the swinging frame and forming pockets to receive the bottles in the lower position of the swinging frame, a pinion on the bottle chute a stationary segmental rack in the path 0% the pinion for inverting the chute during the movement of the swinging frame, a guide for preventing the bottles from falling out of the inverted chute until in position for delivery to the conveyer, and means for swinging the frame.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE J. MEYER. Witnesses:

R. S. CALDWELL,

H. D. CHASE. 

